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As a Business & Integration consultant in the Sourcing & Procurement practice, you will focus on designing and implementing strategies to help transform an organization’s buying and sourcing strategies, whether on a small or large scale. You will spend the majority of your time learning about and recommending various sourcing and procurement strategies, processes, and technologies.

• Run diagnostic and assessment activities, conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis (including should cost modelling, supply market analysis, benchmarking), identify opportunities for improvement including cost/benefit analysis
• Execute client engagements such as operating model design and implementation, strategic cost reductions for direct materials, procurement process design, tail spend management, and e-Procurement system advisory

• Develop new strategies, high-level to-be processes, and organizational designs by leveraging existing best practices and Accenture assets.
• Development of plans to ensure the successful implementation of the recommended strategies
• Putting process and organizational changes into action, including management
• Collaborate seamlessly with our clients' internal resources to ensure that solutions implemented meet their business needs.
• Using problem-solving principles and prior experience, lead the team through problem definition, issue identification, and work plan development.
• Meet project deadlines by adhering to the project plan.

• Build long-term relationships with key clients
• Managing client stakeholder relationships and communications at all stages of the project.
• Support drafting of proposals

• Participate in practice building activities (e.g. thought leadership development, market offering development).
• Research and stay up-to-date on recent Procurement trends.
• Contribute to generation of thought leadership ideas, i.e. Assistance with internal development of Sourcing & Procurement best practices and assets
• Continuously support the development of our service offering and value proposition.
• Support development of IP and white papers.
• Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts across the business to extract required knowledge
• Prepare relevant project case studies to demonstrate capabilities

You should have solid experience in the Sourcing & Procurement area from working in consultancies and/or other industries. You will be expected to be passionate and positive about the opportunity to enhance your existing experience and grow Accenture’s capability to deliver Sourcing & Procurement solutions to our clients.

• 8+ years of strong industry operational experience in Sourcing & Procurement (for managers)
• 4+ years of working experience in any of the following SAP solutions is a must: SAP Ariba, SAP MM, SRM, and/or S/4
  
  HANA for Sourcing & Procurement
• You have worked within one or several of the following…